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VALUE OF EXCITEMENT.

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WIRELESSING SHIPS.

CIVILIZED MAN'S NEED OF A HOW TO READ THEIR CODE

MENTAL STIMULUS.

We are often told that, instead of watching football cricket, boxing a horse race, or boat-race, we should all of us play some game, eays a writer in allome contemporary. It is commonly assumed that a large "gate" witering one or other of our popular forms of sport points to na- tional decadenec. if not degeneracy,

But excitement to civilized peoples is both natural nad necessary while excitement caused by sport whether in the player or in the spectator, is healthy and beneficial a view which is supported by eminent prychologists, and physictogists.

GROUPS.

It may be of interest to readers who bare learned to read Morse and who possess apparatus sutable for the reception of signals from ships, if explain briefly the procedure observed in the wireless work Letween ships, also between skips and coast stations. If you are "listening in" with your receiver tuned to a wave length of 600 metres you will hear the ships working, and for practice in tuning and adjustment a better wave-length could not be chosen for jamming" is generally bad in that part" the acther.

It is quite likely you will hear a ship

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Buying An Island.

THE CHINA MAIL.

GENERAL ITEM 3.

Egypt is having the hottest and dampeat summer for 20 years,

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A man of 80, who is deaf and dumb, has flown from London to Paris.

Little Tobago, the island near) Trinidad and Tobage owned by the late Sir William Ingram, is up for enle at the price of £2,000 which seeme ren onable for an island inhabited by

Aldershot Education Committee hundreds (sic) of birds of paradise. has, at a cost of £13 yearly, insured

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DONKEY IN CHURCH.

PEASANT ASTONISHED AT PRIEST'S ANGER.

Band

- Great excitement has been caused nt Cave, a town of 4,000 inhabitants,. near Rome, for what is called an unprecedented, insult to religion. A peasant, Nazzareno Pichi, while

Landy, which is bigger then Little all the children against accidents dur-riding au ass, entered the church of

| Tobago but by no meant so pictures-ing school tours.

que, fetched £25,000 many years ago, and Mr. Compton Mackerzie had to pay about £5.000 for his little faa ns of lorein. The biggest bargain in the way of i-tauds, however, was runde by M. Guston Menier, the malti-

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Surrey's rateable value, which is now £0.055 803, will be reduced next year by £100.000, £ue mainly to the lower assessment of the railways,

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millionaire, wha .in 1895 scured | It is reported that a vein of gold Anticosti, at the mouth of the St. has been discovered in South Africa Lawpener for £25,GUO, Anticosti is 122 extending from the border of miles long by 30 miles wide, and covers Bachuanaland almost to the West an ares of 3,000 square miles;

Rand. A Big Salenge Job.

Members of the House of Commons and the staff are to have the use next arssion of a ministure rifle ringo io the basement of the House of Com- mons.

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The Germans live on band a very stiff problem in the effort to raise the 12,000-ton ateurner "Avare," which capsized in the Elte in June last. The greater part of the enlvag material as had to be manufactured specially

The Frenobian Pamilley, who left for the job. Eleven groups of piles numbering about 120 in all have been Cap Griz Nez to swim the Chantel at suck on the quay.ids, and oa thee 6 am, abandoned the attempt at miles from Calais, twenty two powerful steam wienfers noon, seven are to be mounted, the steam being through cramp. generated on hoard tugs in the docks and conducted to the winches by Manne ani piprs. Eight powerful bating winches will augment the power supplied by the mounted win thes. At the same time the great Routing crate of the Vulean Shipyard will be brought to bear on the port side,

For what is excitement but a call a cast station and end with the1nd Cnly in a Bathing Suit quickening or awakening of the mind. | letters "TR," meaning that the bip

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Total receipts from all course n aid of the Hospitals of London Com- bined Appeal now exceed £305,000 towards the £500,000 wanted by the end of the year.

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St. Stephen during Mass. The caudal

was chornIQUS,

great astonishment for he declared The peasant was arrested, to his that he was unaware of having com initted any crime, He thought he eculd cater the church as he enters his ean house together with bis donkoy, his faithful companion.

The parish piest applied to have the peasant condemned for violation of eacred objects, for which the

codo Italian

prescribes heavy penalties.

The judge who examined the ense decided that the sacred obice's are the crucifix, relics, ehalier, and ou forth but not the church, and he ordered the prisoner's release.

SUBMARINE DEATHS.

TWO MEN SACRIFICED TO

SAVE CREW,

The Swedish submarin N.R IGE Iller, during coastal maneuvres of Solingen, was firing at a moving target when the commander brought it to the surface to see the effect of the fire.

For coucenling 71b. of vigata, Wilfed Francis Gooer, 34, an en giceer, who bas ju-t come from Izdin, a stimulation of the nervous system, wishes to report to the cast station.

Those motorist: who, clad only in was at Westminster ordered to pay and therefore, in occasional modera'CA TR" is called a "time rush "

bathing suit, step out of their hot Isg22, the double duty. doses of benefit to all normal beings? and should give the following ach, shu take wani-g by the into a coupé and drive down to the details:- Distatre of ship from coast ishap which befell a visitor nt a Among the bigher animale te love station, the ship's position, next port inshionable French seaside resort re of excitcinent is abundantly manifest, of call, and number of messages the cently, points out "Contact" in must noticeably, perhaps, in the horse, ship ma to send. Sometimes, the tetor. Going down to the beach ir and dog. Beyond doubt a racehore speed of the ship is given also Some this way the engine of the visitor's thoroughly enjoys the excitement cl times, too, the TR consists simply the race. A hely deg reeks all of, for example, Here ABC (i.c., the fate of the town, and he had no alter- ar stopped in the busiest thorouch- kinds of excuses to perform wild antics. ship's call-letters) left Tilbury coun native but clad as he was, a conspicu The sense of pingud play means bound Cardif QRU," The last group ous and very foolish-looking in excitement one finds even amor letters means "I have no mes-agdividual, to get out and investigate elderly lions in capt vite. Almost all for you." and is one of a number of the tremble, which proved to be ore animals possess the secase of play: code groups which have ben framed that took him or hour to put right, while arst bids, from the tiny golden for quick conversation. You will find At the end of that tim his colour crested

the ara faring this languagein the wireless Year Booksch was beyond descrip ion-skep in Old Bond street, W albatross, have their playful in

Often a ship will be heard to call aid blue bathing suit a while paus smashed a showerse win low. and terludes.

Three of the crew went out on deck, but as the ballast tanks were not all illed alike and the veal could not The train service on the Siberian be kept alleat, the commander had to winter as up to the present not che craft. Railway may be sup med cubic foot of wood-the locomotive

this close the batchway and submerge his

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e est station and end its message with MSG" which means that the ship wishes to send a message from the captain-a muter's service message.

ma with a yellow band, plus count

It is the lack of excitement in

marks of oil, greaze and dirt and remote and more or less desolate parts

slut may have been deep sunburu or of the country that causes the

permaneat binsh. One has ouly to intelligent worker to seek em; loyment the const station is ready to reive realize how a Freteh crowd thorough in town or city. It is the need of messages, it calls the clip and easy appreciates such an incident, and excitement that creates the world K," which is equivalent o Geres the bufour at it, to imagine is traveller the best type of adventurer, head" If it recives the message discomforting nature. the best type of sailor and soldier.correctly it signals back "RIK,"

It is good to see a nice big nail

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Two of the three men, one a mid- shipman, the son of Admiral Au- carcrona, were drowned. The third Three senied letters addressed to was rescued by a boat. Ilad the people in Wales were in the room of submarine not been submerged at Wilfred Price, 38, dentist, who was once, it is said, it would have sunk und shot dead at his lodgings at and the whole crew would have Castle Hill, Reading, Berkebire. perished.

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a jezeler's

ran away with imitation pearls worth, it is stated, between £200 and £300.

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at Amsterdam on board a steamer shortly to leave for Hongkong as part of a campaign to stamp out aplom smuggling and fighting in the Chinese quarter.

Two bundred Chinese were arreeted

Largely its emving acts as the mind-meaning "No. 1 message received; go Kruger's Millions. engine of the explorer-nl these was ahead;" if it wishes a word to be re-driven well home into the coffin of life-mission is to discover unknown pented it sends "UD WA. Tomkins," he wonderful stories of Kroger'e ship servien between London ani To mark the opening of a steam- regions, terrestrial, or even celestial.orUD AA Street." There mann Millions that buve sint scores of Alkmaar, North Holland, a choice May it not abo go far to explain the Repeat word after Tomkins" or pol tician, the big financier, and—the millionзire?

BARBAROUSSrour,"

Lack of facility for legitimate es citement a generation back was pro- ductive of the most barbarous forms

«Repeat all fler street." By prople wasting their moncy in Alkner che, se is being sent by the altempt to salve the sel.ooner burgomaster to the Lord Mayor (Sir * Dorothea Gerard," wrecked of John Baddeley). Sta. Lucia Bay. for the ultion

obsiting the working eceely both from ship and share slation it

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is possible to becoing conversant that quickly with the ways of operators.

abe certainly dors nof A woman whose husbaod lat becn contain. A South African paper fined 20s. for assaulting her, told 'c Listening in het without its bas given the full stay as told by Marylebone magistrate that her hus of sport." Especially in bleak and monent of humour. Tlure is the one of the men who guarded the trend had declared that he would bare North County district, heiore classic joke, beary, amongst pre war se as it arrived in Portuguese terrimale her pay the fine by kreping her the day of popular football, cricket, wireless men, of the junior operator, tory, and there is no doubt that suck without money. and coursing, and long before the who audlid about call-letters and of it as was not required to meet kinema wag draint of, prize fights ni taking the coast station at Ushart claims on the spot aga last the Trans (bate knuckles).cock lights dog fights for a ship, signall-d, "Where are you vaal and Orange Free State Govern and rat hunts formed regular past me band " The operators ons was add to German Grm and of a Sunday-fer the telers and zeas of ships lugged themselves of transported to Europe by the very moilere had no other day for recebeating this, but when after protau!achable but antoniastic means ation. Legitimate forms of excite thought the French operator replied the mail steamer. There was at ment killed a bat--for vlere now Mister. Ian. Usheit. I do not ha tremendous hd of it anyhow, adays, is to be found the miner at barge," tas e shrined the incident although certainly enough to be colton operative who would refer in their hearts together with the story worth a cock fight, or a duel to the death between rat and serret. say, to his Saturday afternoon's football match

MR. J P. MORGAN'S CHEQUE,

NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR CUSTOMS MEN!

looking

of the Japanese operator who gave nally were generat call and idded, "All gentle-is"

emigrants went to New Zealand from During the past y› ar 7,000 assisted the United Kingdom. 99 neg rent. of the nonicators carrying out their bligations, it is announced We Birgton, N.Z.

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Kovan for more than half a century for if there to the printers and à lied workera di the least chance of Fleet-street for its "luef à la mode was honourable embaikery affixed wwck of the "Dorothea Gerard." fashioned retaurant in Salisbury- ever having been is the and porter." "Wilkinson's," an old- muddily and able to coming out," However there is not, and this fact court, has closed. meaning that his ship laad stock on a may well be recountered by raybody

dback and could not get eft.

Working down among the ships on others with beautiful schemes for River Uk at Newport. Monmouth ho is appr arbed by enthusiasts or Diving, fully dressed into the

financing a search forʻik

Our Most Dangerous Trado Late

shire, Albert Watkins, 30 a cripple, swam to a but who had fallen f on a

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C00 metres can be ende very interesting by the use of a frame aorial with which, as has been explained in earlier articles oue is

The loss of the Raleigh" on the boat, put him across his shoulders The signature of Mr. J. Pierpont able to determine the direction from Labrador side of the Belle Isle Straits and brought him to the bark. Morgan, who one signed a cheque for which s grals arrive. In fact, given Lawrence is still one of the must

remiuda one that the mouth of the S £15,000,000 and whose life is sued favourable circumstances, it should be dangerous channels in the world and which was visited in three days by fo £650,000, is not good enough for possible for an amateus with a frame the New York ticket office that the 48 men, if women, 27 bors, and 22 For having kept a betting house Italian Customs officiala. Although aerial, a good compass, and a map to first stop is in steamships of the great girls, and where slips relating to 3,334 it is understood that Mr. Morgan trace roughly the progress of a ship is trading to Cenada is entirely hets were found, James Turnbull, of worth a few millious, he was turped back at the Italian froatter when he along the cast by means of care'l dan to the careful navigation of their Birtley, Durham, was fined £45. was motering from latebrück in the few hours.

observations mudo at intervals of oflicets and the wonderful focal Tyrol through the Brenner Puss.

knowledge which they have attained, The Government of New South If ever there was need of one of the Wales lus agreed in prisciple to the newly devised guiding cables it is immigration scheme under which the along the chasoel is the St. Commonwealth and New Scoth Wales Lawrence, but although it is well sup and Great Britain each pay one-third plied with wireless directional stations of the cost of taking out land settlers. an effort as yet been made to, provide an under-water cable, paasib.

Duty meit be deposit d on all motorents entering Italy. Mr. Morgan had no money, but he offered a cheque drawn one of his own banks. The Italian Customs men just waved it avide, and Mr. Morgan bad to go back to Iousblick and obain.come cash Before be could get into Italy.

A GLANCE IN HER GLASS on rising in the morning will reveal to ery woman whether or t she nees tho help which is zien her by

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ASSAULT IN COURT.

ANGRY LITIGANT SENT TO PRIBON,

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Twenty timea mentioned in 'dos.

ly because of the great cost owing to patchea during the war, decorated At the conclusion of a claim for its length. Not only are togs and ice with the Legion of Honour the posesion at Clerkenwell County to be expecte! here for a large propor. Military Midal, and the Croix de Court, the landlord, who had failed in tion of the year, but the currents are Guerra a French ex eoldier named his glaim, struck the tenant as he was all over the place au constitute a Queven works daily paving Peris leaving the court, At Judge Parist's grave danger, whilo nbreast of streets. direction the landlord was brought Anticosti there is a stretch of the river) back into court.

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where the ship's compass is rather Released on parole for one day

His Iunour: am rot going to more than likely to be thrown cut, from Cardiff prison to attend the hase the precedings of the entp csumably wing to the big fields of funeral of his wife at Rises, peor interfered with in this way. Unless rein the trightourhood. Certainly Newport, Thomas May,

you apotegies yon wil go to prison, the cost would be very high but at the miner, serving a sentence of six

ranic time enn entitat help thinking months for taking part in a distur that a leader mlse would be well worth nce at a colliery, was excotted from life and ons hopes to suit fall bland-back-to-thuspicon_by.thaxicarol fore very long

Yoyadda, the adjolving parisli.

The landlord drellar to apologize. His Hyport: Then, you will be committed to pringti 101 24 hours for contrant ci court.

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